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    Deloitte’s Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs

    Deloitte plans to expand the professional services firm’s U.S. Technology Delivery Center in Orlando, Florida and hire additional software development, system analysis and information technology workers as part of the expansion initiative, the Orlando Economic Development Commission reported Thursday. Laureen Martinez writes Deloitte has partnered with the City of Lake Mary, CareerSource Central Florida and the Orlando Economic […] More

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    Broadcom, Harris Vet Bill Miller Joins NetApp as CIO

    Bill Miller, former senior vice president and chief information officer at Broadcom, has joined NetApp in the same role of CIO and will be responsible for both the company’s information technology organization and ongoing transformation initiatives. NetApp said Wednesday Miller will manage the NetApp on NetApp and Customer-1 programs that aim to help the company’s engineering and field organizations update and demonstrate […] More

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    DOE Selects 6 Projects to Develop Tech for Thermal Efficiency at Combined-Cycle Power Plants

    The Energy Department‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory will invest $30 million in six selected Phase 2 projects to help develop technologies for gas turbine components and supercritical carbon dioxide power cycles. DOE said Wednesday it seeks technologies that work to help combined-cycle power plants meet a target thermal efficiency rating of 65 percent from its current efficiency rating of 61 […] More

  • in Healthcare IT, News

    Vanaja Ragavan: Aviana Receives NASA Grant for Biosensor Tech Development

    Aviana Molecular Technologies has been selected to build sensors for installation in NASA‘s extra-terrestrial mission vehicles as well as repurpose the devices as biosensors. NASA awarded a grant to the startup diagnostic company in conjunction with the University of Central Florida for the sensor development project as part of the agency’s Small Business Technology Transfer initiative, Aviana said Monday. The […] More

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    Raytheon-Sponsored Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Kicks Off; David Wajsgras Comments

    The Raytheon-sponsored 2016 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for 2016 will start Monday in an initiative to educate and develop both current talent and future generations of cybersecurity workers. “Now more than ever before, the U.S. and countries around the world are connected by global information networks,” David Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services unit, said in a […] More

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    Iowa State Student Team Wins Lockheed-Backed Cyber Contest; Chris Kearns Comments

    A group of students from Iowa State University has won $25,000 in a cyber analysis competition that Lockheed Martin sponsored with Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology. The National Cyber Analyst Challenge seeks to improve threat identification and cyber analysis skills of the future cyber workforce and encourage students to pursue cybersecurity-related careers, […] More

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    University of Central Florida Wins Raytheon-Sponsored 2015 NCCDC; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    The University of Central Florida emerged as champions of the Raytheon-sponsored 2015 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held over the weekend in San Antonio, Texas. Raytheon said Sunday UCF won for the second consecutive year and bested nine other teams during the finals of the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security competition. “The talented men and women who […] More

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    Lockheed Gifts Simulators to UCF College of Nursing; Jon Rambeau Comments

    Lockheed Martin has contributed three simulation training equipment to the University of Central Florida’s College of Nursing. The three high-fidelity mannequin simulators will help UCF’s undergraduates prepare for clinical practice with real-life scenarios that test their ability to communicate with, examine and diagnose patients, the university said Sept. 2. The donation also included IV catheter training kits […] More

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    Siemens Orlando Office Buildings to Sell for $14M

    The Siemens Orlando office buildings in Florida will be bought by Owens Realty Capital for $14.3 million through Wells Real Estate Fund‘s Fund XIII and Fund XIV Associates, the Orlando Business Journal reported Tuesday. Anjali Fluker writes that the two buildings in Quadrangle Corporate Park were built 12 years ago and cover 82,560 square feet of space. The sale is expected […] More